Keeping Boomers In Touch With Today's Music
We connect a song from back-in-the-day to a current hit that has a similar sound/content/style. You’ll be up to speed in 90-seconds.
Curated by Dave Sholin | Written by Lee Wade
We’re Not In Kansas Anymore.
Boomers grew up listening to music made in the great cities of 20th century America: Detroit, Philly, Chicago, San Francisco, the deep South. So its surprising to note that there are currently three big rock acts from Las Vegas, a relatively new city without an...
Daryl Hall, John Oates, & The Philly Sound
Philadelphia boy Daryl Hall and partner John Oates, who’ve been around since the 70s, are still selling out arenas, their new song is top 15 on the Adult Contemporary and Pop radio charts, and, thanks to MTV’s "Daryl's House,” Hall is a household name to a new...
Lady Gaga’s Thrilling Cover of Elton John’s “Your Song.”
Some Boomers sometimes remark that today’s music just isn’t as good as the music from the good ol’ days and those Boomers are in good company because Sir Elton, aka Elton John, recently complained to the British press that today's music doesn't stand up to songs from...
The More Things Change, The More They Change
At one time Country music’s image was of rugged, tanned drunks who loved their mothers and then went to prison. Today’s Country is much fluffier—if hit-bound “Hotel Key” by Old Dominion, one of Nashville’s most popular, talented, and successful bands, was a color, it...
Is Shawn Mendes’ “In My Blood” as Mesmerizing as “Don’t Dream It’s Over” by Crowded House?
Pop/rock band Crowded House owned the air waves in early 1987, mesmerizing millions with “Don’t Dream It’s Over”--less a song with a linear story line, more a montage of images, insights and thoughts. Taking the slot reserved for hauntingly powerful ballads today is...
Tequila!
Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo, a holiday that commemorates a minor Mexican military victory, and which is more popular here in the U.S. than it is in Mexico. Sometimes known as “drinko de mayo,” tequila is the drink of choice. Flash back to “Tequila” the song. It’s...
Peace, Love & Understanding, Country Style
From Beethoven’s “Ode To Joy” to The Youngbloods “Get Together” (a song with so much appeal it charted twice, in 1967 and 1969) to Kenny Chesney’s brand new “Get Along,” human nature always has been, and remains, hopeful. It’s the artists and their interpreters who...
“Bad Bad News” Is A “Must Listen To”
The Wall Street Journal described Leon Bridges as a "throwback to 60's soul a la Otis Redding and Sam Cooke.” We say he’s is a remarkable singer, songwriter and producer with old school R&B in his DNA. Bridges is a class act; his latest, “Bad Bad News” is worth a...
Willie Nelson Turns 85; Boomers Seem Young By Comparison
If you are alive, “Ready To Roar” will get you smilin’ (at worst) and (at best) tappin’ or clappin …and it’s not even a great song, it's just an OK song that hits the right note, the right rhythm, the right tone, and that's because Willie Nelson, the song’s co-writer...